Mercury Rising

Invasion of the Child Hackers A growing legion of semi-computer-literate teens short of something to do could be the biggest danger to security on the web. Forget viruses, 419 email fraudsters and server meltdowns. The biggest potential threat to your online security could come from the growing menace of 'click' kiddies, a leading security firm warns. Where traditional ...

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Science and technology links

... effect. Human males are generally more variable on traits than females. More . How “postmodernist” science is supposed to work: Postmodernism maintains that it is within the rhetorical apparatus of science—how scientists talk about their work—that these moral aims of science may be accomplished. About that as rather missing the point .

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Judge refuses to lift gag order on MIT students in Boston subway-hack case

...of the order, the EFF submitted a letter in support of the students signed by 11 computer science professors and security researchers (download PDF). David Farber, a professor of computer science and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, was one of the people who signed the letter. He said today that the ...

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random roundup

... Hmm, mixing animals and machinery now, and not just any animal tissue, but supposedly that with the ability to learn. What next? My computer gaming news: been doing badly on my second season on Football Manager 2005 (Wolverhampton Wanderers really are not good enough for the Premiership), am slowly crawling...

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Sad news from Jonathan White

..., at Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666. Dad served our country during World War Two and the Korean War, taught mathematics and computer science to several generations of engineering students, and managed to raise four kids on a professor's salary. A lifelong vocalist, he also was active in his ...

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Odd Lots

.... If we can't model it, we can't duplicate it, and the model has proven extremely slippery. Good-bye singularity, not that it ever made much sense even granting astonishing increases in computer power. Here are some nice comparison tables showing how the pricing models of the leading POD houses affect publisher take-home revenues at various sales levels. I now have a photo of John T. Frye ...

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Life, the Universe and Everything - otherwise known as llama's IB scores

night stand : Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour - Richard Gross I pre-warn ... proves to be quite satisfactory. The desktop computer, I've found, is quite cosy to ... of me being so huge. The screen, computer and keyboard takes up all my focal ... the peripheral view, I see even more computer-esque items, printer and speakers. Computer is my world. Maybe the next step is starting to play WoW....

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Can we make software that comes to life?

... new phase? Today, 300 biologists, computer scientists, physicists, mathematicians, philosophers and ... the greatest challenges in modern science: how to create a genuine ... at Darwinian evolution inside a computer, in which organisms - scraps of ... told me. Other versions of computer evolution followed. Researchers thought that ... complex creatures - the richer the computer's environment, the richer the...

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Astronomical Calculator

A 2,100-year-old bronze and iron computer that predicted eclipses and other astronomical events also showed the cycle of the Greek Olympics and the related games that led up to it, researchers reported today....

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Milieuxvision Nightly News - Friday August 1, 2008

...Now that I'm done with the advice for the lovelorn, I'll get on to the news. Quick Start Computer Science got to play with google and learn about viruses. As for the town news, Meg opened the Divine Leaf , as usual. Jake and Buffy both stopped...s okay, Millie, we all make mistakes. That looks like all the news that's fit to report, so I'll tell you to expect ...

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